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I really wanted the house to be a character. And I knew, I said, I’ll produce that one, but if I direct it, I need to build a house.

Guillermo del Toro

The fairies in the ancient notion of fairies, they are not positive and cute and twinkly.They can be incredibly nasty or they can be incredibly benign. It’s a really interesting mythology when you dig into it.
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Cute Interesting Nasty
When I stage a violent scene, I try for it to serve a purpose. I do love those things, the makeup effects. But I love them more with the monsters. I never was much of a gore guy. I’ve always enjoyed just creating monsters.
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Guy Makeup Trying
We’re in three living groups, ’cause even after the world’s ended some assholes still can’t get along.
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Groups Three World
I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
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Carpenter Film More Others
I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.
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Country Different People Produce
Somebody said to me, in a very well-meaning way, at a screening, “We love the movie but it’s too violent. If you tone down the violence you could reach a great audience of kids.”.
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Kids Violence Violent
…there’s something about maternal love – it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.
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Love Maternal might Spiritual
You can always go back to not making any money, and then you get the freedom. And I’m going to continue doing it, because it really is a fantastic sense of liberation.
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Continue Fantastic Liberation Money
For me, lost causes are the only ones that are worth fighting for. The other stuff is not worth fighting for.
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Causes Fighting Stuff
If you don’t take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
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Directors Intimate Partnership
You have to believe the magic to see it.
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Believe Look Magic People
I think once a Catholic, always a Catholic. You never escape. I still have Catholic guilt. It is in its basis a really powerful religion and a really strong set of beliefs. They permeate my work in many ways.
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Powerful Strong Thinking
It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Guy Horror Shoes
I had gotten to the point where I just didn’t want to perform anymore – I didn’t want to be on the chopping block anymore. I started to want to withdraw and retreat from it.
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Block Retreat Want
But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil’s Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Devil Ghost Stories Thinking
You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO

Giving People World

I really wanted the house to be a character. And I knew, I said, I’ll produce that one, but if I direct it, I need to build a house.

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